2013 Pacific typhoon season
The 2013 Pacific typhoon season was the most active Pacific typhoon season since 2004, and the deadliest since 1975. It featured Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms and one of the strongest landfalling tropical cyclones in history. It was an above-average season with 31 named storms, 13 typhoons, and five super typhoons. The season's first named storm, Sonamu, developed on January 4 while the season's last named storm, Podul, dissipated on November 15. Despite the activity, most of the first seventeen named storms before mid-September were relatively weak, as only two of them reached typhoon intensity. Total damage amounted to at least $26.41 billion (USD), making it at the time the costliest Pacific typhoon season on record; it is currently the fourth costliest, behind the 2018, 2019 and 2023 seasons.
Typhoon Soulik in July was the strongest tropical cyclone to affect Taiwan in 2013. In August, Typhoon Utor cost US$3.55 billion damage and killed 97 people, becoming the second deadliest tropical cyclone of the Philippines in 2013. Three systems in August, Pewa, Unala and 03C, continuously crossed the International Date Line from the Central Pacific and entered this basin. Typhoon Haiyan caused catastrophic damage and devastation to the Philippines as a Category 5 super typhoon, killing more than 6,300 people, making it one of the deadliest Pacific typhoons on record.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and the 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones, which often results in a storm having two names. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph) anywhere in the basin, whilst the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as tropical depressions in their area of responsibility, located between 115°E and 135°E and between 5°N and 25°N, regardless of whether or not the tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) are given a number with a "W" suffix.
Duration
January 1 – January 10
January 6 – January 13
February 18 – February 23
June 6 – June 12
June 16 – June 21
June 19 – June 24
June 27 – July 2
July 7 – July 14
July 15 – July 18
July 28 – August 3
August 5 – August 8
August 8 – August 18
August 15 – August 19
August 16 – August 24
August 18 (Entered basin) – August 26
August 19 (Entered basin) – August 19
August 25 – August 30
August 29 – September 5
August 31 – September 4
September 11 – September 16
September 15 – September 21
September 16 – September 24
September 19 – September 27
September 25 – October 1
September 29 – October 2
September 29 – October 7
October 1 – October 9
October 8 – October 16
October 9 – October 16
October 15 – October 26
October 17 – October 22
October 19 – October 26
October 27 – November 5
November 2 – November 7
November 3 – November 11
November 11 – November 15
December 2 – December 4